Editor’s Column
August hasn’t been a happy month for Honda. Earlier this month, in addition to the recall of 2.5 million vehicles, respected news agency Reuters issued a compendium of the damning US assessments of the 2012 Honda Civic.
After emerging as the world’s number one car manufacturer for the first half of the year, General Motors has declared it will cut the number of platforms in its inventory by more than half – from 30 in 2010 to just 14 by 2018.
Auto accessories are generally quite conservative. You've got your seat covers, your floor mats, your driving lights. That is, before before you jump into the Twilight Zone, where you can witness some of the greatest automotive travesties of all...
Dumb-est ever automotive accessories for your smart phone? And the winner is: the Steer Safe hands-free car kit. What could be safer than clipping your iPhone, Blackberry or Galaxy S to the rim of your steering wheel? (Answer: Turning up to interview...
The old joke among tyre engineers is also one of the tyre game’s bigger issues. See, the difference between good tyres and bad tyres is that they are both black, and round. However tremendous the gulf in performance separating a really good tyre...
Lifestyles of the rich and vacuous: famous-for-nothing-substantive celebrity hotel heiress, Paris Hilton, has taken delivery of her second Lexus LFA supercar. This week Ms Hilton (the 2007 Guinness World Records official ‘Most Overrated...
Meet George’s jet, son: Transformer-tech could be closer than you think ... but it probably won't be as slick as in Dark of the Moon. Personal transportation seems destined to do the Superman bit.
The Victorian Police are waging war against the state government - and it's gotten dirty. Reports have surfaced that the cops have started kicking the Government where it hurts: in the cameras.
Fuel will not be subject to the carbon tax. (Cue collective motorists’ sigh of relief.) Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced on the weekend – curious timing – that fuel would be “forever exempt” from the carbon tax, even after it becomes...
CRUZER PAYS?
After pocketing $40 million last month to help build more fuel-efficient future Commodores, Holden sent strong signals last week that its burghers in Detroit will probably pull the pin on Australian manufacturing of the next generation...